Shaping the world economy : suggestion for an international economic policy

The world, confronted by a vast gap between technical ability and moral power, is in desperate need of a policy -a policy that will create a framework for the solution of urgent economic and political problems.

The Western countries, not so long ago masters of the world, have been deposed by the very forces they liberated. Old orders are passing as one country after another throws off the yoke of colonialism. In a consider able part of the world a new economic order, "com munism," is being vigorously tried out. Everywhere the wholesale introduction of Western techniques and ways of life is shaking the foundations of numerous beliefs and attitudes, for good or evil. A spurt of population growth accompanies this development. All of these changes, with their multiple potentialities for conflict, are taking place in a. era in which mankind has just ydiscovered the possibilities of nuclear warfare.

In this work Professor Jan Tinbergen, a leading Dutch economist, offers challenging proposals for what the West can do to relieve economic tensions now existing between developed and underdeveloped countries, be tween Communist and non-Communist systems, and to promote the peace and welfare of the world.